A Short History of Progress

by Ronald Wright

Sex, food, wealth, power, prestige: they lure us onward,

Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the

Ecological markers suggest that in the early 196os, humans were using about 70 per cent of nature's yearly output; by the early 198os, we'd reached ioo per cent; and in 1999, we were at 125 per cent.b' Such numbers may be imprecise, but their trend is clear - they mark the road to bankruptcy.

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